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20 Conjoin with others. So Silurian Plants Admit the Peache's odoriferous Globe, And Pears of sundry Forms; at diff'rent times Adopted Plums will aliene Branches grace; And Men have gather'd from the Hawthorn's Branch Large Medlars, imitating regal Crowns.


 * Nor is it hard to beautifie each Month

With Files of particolour'd Fruits, that please The Tongue, and View, at once. So Maro's Muse, Thrice sacred Muse! commodious Precepts gives Instructive to the Swains, not wholly bent On what is gainful: Sometimes she diverts From solid Counsels, shews the Force of Love In savage Beasts; how Virgin Face divine Attracts the hapless Youth thro' Storms, and Waves, Alone, in deep of Night: Then she describes The Scythian Winter, nor disdains to sing, Rh